Interview: David Levering Lewis talks about his new book "W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight For Equality and the American Century, 1919 to 1963"

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Interview: David Levering Lewis talks about his new book "W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight For Equality and the American Century, 1919 to 1963"

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He was a prolific writer and intellectual. He was the first African-American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University. But W.E.B. DuBois was often seen as an elitist whose activism and militancy put him ...

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